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Learning to Love Learning
Pat Renzi is a Principal at Milliman and the CEO of Milliman’s Life Technology Solutions business.
Having spent 30 years providing commercial technology solutions to support actuaries in risk management, product development, and financial reporting, she is passionate about leveraging technology to allow insurers to better serve their customers, their employees, and their shareholders.
Pat is a strong advocate for more diversity within actuarial science and technology, understanding the importance of diversity in background as we expand the use of data in driving decisions. Pat is the Chairperson of Milliman’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee and is working with a small group of insurers to leverage technology to provide resiliency strategies to Black-Owned small businesses
Sponsor Information
Visit www.yourheights.com and use acuriouslife10 for a 10% discount.
Transcript
Hadley: [00:00:00] So Pat, welcome to the show.
[00:00:03] Patricia Renzi: [00:00:03] Thank you very much for having me glad to be here.
[00:00:05] Hadley: [00:00:05] I cannot begin to tell you how much of an honour it is to be having this conversation with you to be, to have you on my show. I think hands down you are one of the most inspiring leaders that I've ever had the pleasure of working with hats off, um, and much respect.
[00:00:22] Patricia Renzi: Thank you very much. Hadley: Okay. So back, I normally kick off the show by asking people one simple question. Uh, what does curiosity mean to you?
[00:00:31] Patricia Renzi: [00:00:31] So whenever I hear the word curiosity, I always think of curious, George and I love curious, George, and, and the reason I love curious George is because he just always wants to learn, you know, he just dives in and he's so excited about learning new things.
[00:00:51] And that's what curiosity means to me is just that, that passion around learning new things and wanting to just dive in, explore, jump from thing to thing and just, you know, always want to learn more. So that's what curiosity means to me
[00:01:06] Hadley: [00:01:06] that I think captures it perfectly. So, okay. Back now, again, you know, this is a campfire, like type discussion.
[00:01:15] Um, and essentially we just gonna talk about you, um, and find out what's behind the woman. Right. Um, and generally where we start with that is right at the beginning. So where you were born parents siblings.
[00:01:30] Patricia Renzi: [00:01:30] So, um, I am the middle of three girls, um, and I was born in Westchester, Pennsylvania, so small town outside of Philadelphia.
[00:01:44] Uh, my mother and father were both born and raised in Westchester. Um, Farmers. Hadley: Okay. What kind of farmers? Patricia Renzi: Uh, so my mother's family was, um, they had milk cows and then they also raised sheep.
[00:02:04] Hadley: [00:02:04] Okay. So did you grow up on a farm?
[00:02:05] Patricia Renzi: [00:02:05] I did not, no. my, both my parents.
[00:02:10] Hadley: [00:02:10] Okay. So your parents and their families were farmers.
[00:02:13] Patricia Renzi: [00:02:13] Yeah. So, and my grandfather, um, on both sides, they still had farms. So as a child, we would go to the farms. And so, yeah.
[00:02:24] Hadley: [00:02:24] Understood. Okay. So you used to the, not necessarily just the Philly kind of inner city life, but the, the big wide open world and which is...
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Pat Renzi is a Principal at Milliman and the CEO of Milliman’s Life Technology Solutions business.
Having spent 30 years providing commercial technology solutions to support actuaries in risk management, product development, and financial reporting, she is passionate about leveraging technology to allow insurers to better serve their customers, their employees, and their shareholders.
Pat is a strong advocate for more diversity within actuarial science and technology, understanding the importance of diversity in background as we expand the use of data in driving decisions. Pat is the Chairperson of Milliman’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee and is working with a small group of insurers to leverage technology to provide resiliency strategies to Black-Owned small businesses
Sponsor Information
Visit www.yourheights.com and use acuriouslife10 for a 10% discount.
Transcript
Hadley: [00:00:00] So Pat, welcome to the show.
[00:00:03] Patricia Renzi: [00:00:03] Thank you very much for having me glad to be here.
[00:00:05] Hadley: [00:00:05] I cannot begin to tell you how much of an honour it is to be having this conversation with you to be, to have you on my show. I think hands down you are one of the most inspiring leaders that I've ever had the pleasure of working with hats off, um, and much respect.
[00:00:22] Patricia Renzi: Thank you very much. Hadley: Okay. So back, I normally kick off the show by asking people one simple question. Uh, what does curiosity mean to you?
[00:00:31] Patricia Renzi: [00:00:31] So whenever I hear the word curiosity, I always think of curious, George and I love curious, George, and, and the reason I love curious George is because he just always wants to learn, you know, he just dives in and he's so excited about learning new things.
[00:00:51] And that's what curiosity means to me is just that, that passion around learning new things and wanting to just dive in, explore, jump from thing to thing and just, you know, always want to learn more. So that's what curiosity means to me
[00:01:06] Hadley: [00:01:06] that I think captures it perfectly. So, okay. Back now, again, you know, this is a campfire, like type discussion.
[00:01:15] Um, and essentially we just gonna talk about you, um, and find out what's behind the woman. Right. Um, and generally where we start with that is right at the beginning. So where you were born parents siblings.
[00:01:30] Patricia Renzi: [00:01:30] So, um, I am the middle of three girls, um, and I was born in Westchester, Pennsylvania, so small town outside of Philadelphia.
[00:01:44] Uh, my mother and father were both born and raised in Westchester. Um, Farmers. Hadley: Okay. What kind of farmers? Patricia Renzi: Uh, so my mother's family was, um, they had milk cows and then they also raised sheep.
[00:02:04] Hadley: [00:02:04] Okay. So did you grow up on a farm?
[00:02:05] Patricia Renzi: [00:02:05] I did not, no. my, both my parents.
[00:02:10] Hadley: [00:02:10] Okay. So your parents and their families were farmers.
[00:02:13] Patricia Renzi: [00:02:13] Yeah. So, and my grandfather, um, on both sides, they still had farms. So as a child, we would go to the farms. And so, yeah.
[00:02:24] Hadley: [00:02:24] Understood. Okay. So you used to the, not necessarily just the Philly kind of inner city life, but the, the big wide open world and which is...